- Location(s): Bologna
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The centre of the story and the events and emotions in the characters lives’ is the death of Cookie in the Bologna train bomb in 1980. It chronicles the family’s struggle to heal itself after the death.
- Location(s): Dorset
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Rob decides the family needs to get away for the summer Jess is not convinced—won’t all the things they’re escaping be waiting for them on their return? But the kids are thrilled, and before long their idyllic little...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
During a trip to China, Paul and Christine experience the nightmare of every parent: their four year old son is kidnapped. They are reunited after a few hours but the kidnappers, very powerful people in today’s China with close...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The Farm is an addictive psychological thriller from the bestselling author of international publishing sensation Child 44. A suspenseful and pacey page-turner with two sides to the story, and plot twists where you’d least expect, The Farm is destined to be one of...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s to present
The Fastest Loser tells Herman’s story. After witnessing the senseless deaths at the Munich Olympic Village in 1972, he aims to find sporting heroes, with different nationalities and ethnicities, who are willing to conceive and raise a child. In...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fortune favours the fraud… When she was thirteen years old, Ada Howell lost not just her father, but the life she felt she was destined to lead. Now, at eighteen, Ada is given a second chance when her wealthy...
- Location(s): Dominican Republic
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
Mario Vargas Llosa, a former candidate for the presidency of Peru, is better placed than most novelists to write about the machinations of Latin American politics. In The Feast of the Goat he offers a vivid recreation of the...
- Location(s): Balkans
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century to present
The Fig Tree is a novel composed of the intertwining stories of the family of Jadran, a 30-something who tries to piece together the story of his relatives in order to better understand himself. Because he cannot understand why...
- Location(s): Eastern Europe, Germany
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
This classic of modern reportage by one of Britain’s most distinguished non-fiction writers describes what happened when he got access to the file on him kept during his years in East Germany by the Stasi, the infamous secret police....
- Location(s): Casablanca
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Casablanca. Othman, a handsome young Moroccan man, returns home to discover his elderly French wife, Sofia, brutally murdered in their bedroom. Highly educated but chronically unemployed, Othman had been in desperate straits before meeting Sofia, who pampered him with...
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